Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.

The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.